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Meanderings
Three things to do: review Kierkegaard’s The Present Age catch up on the Deal Me In challenge !! choose my next read I was reading Krzhizhanovsky (pictured) and, of course, Dante, but the timing just wasn’t right…or something. Both of them are books I feel I could pick up at any time, so they’re on… Read more >>
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Earthly Angels: Iolanta and Billy Budd
Last month, I saw two excellent productions which I’ve been meaning (ever since) to talk about. One was an opera – the Met’s new/first production of Iolanta, by Tchaikovsky, starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala. The second was Billy Budd, a 1962 adaptation of Melville’s novella, with Peter Ustinov playing Captain Vere. Iolanta is about… Read more >>
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‘Lighthouse’ – how not to read Jules Verne
For starters, this is not a review of the book The Lighthouse at the End of the World, by Jules Verne. Rather, this is about the specific version I ordered (and am returning), which is translated by William Butcher and published by Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press). There were three types of Verne translations… Read more >>
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Nostalgia trip
How could reading morph from something intrinsically habitual to – a tedious chore? While I stew on that sad thought, I will just mention these books (they come in threes) that arrived this week, and which I am, in a wistful way, excited to read. A long time ago, I was on a magnificent Jules… Read more >>
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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